"For the rest blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen...

"Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to...

"By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour Pip went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said...

"Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practiced swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the...

"In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb."

"Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller’s trunk."

"Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still...

"And so the whale was lost and Pip was saved."

"But Pip loved life, and all life’s peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking business in which he had somehow unaccountably...

"Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before; ye must remember his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so gloomy-jolly."

"The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor."

"Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a...

"Forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst."

"Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct."

"And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist."

"It’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled."

"But is the Queen a mermaid, to be presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here."

"From the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of...

"What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a...

"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."